Quotes from Paul David Tripp

Finally, we must understand that theology is never an end in itself, but a means to an end, the end that we would progressively become like the One who is the ultimate definition of what love is and what love does.

The world of envy no more mixes with the world of grace than oil does with water.

from birth we are all philosophers, we are all theologians, and we all function like archeologists, digging through the mound of our existence to make sense of it all.

You can take your life off your shoulders because God has placed it on his.

Marriage is meant to expose your self-focus and self-reliance. It is meant to convince you that you are needier than you thought you were and to encourage you that God's grace has more power to transform than you thought it did. Marriage is meant to teach you how to give, love, serve, forgive, support, encourage, and wait. Think

Lo más precioso en nuestras vidas, nuestra relación con Dios, no es el resultado de nuestros méritos, sino el regalo eterno y transformador de Su gracia.

The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation. Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.

anger is always an issue of the heart before it is an act of physical aggression.

La paz viene cuando descansas en el hecho de que la gracia te conecta con Aquel que ha vencido todo aquello que puede atribular tu corazón y que no existe nada que pueda destruir esa conexión.

It is tempting to forget that there is an eternity or to think that it doesn't make any difference in the present. Paul says just the opposite to the Corinthians; that if you only have Christ in this life, you are a person to be pitied. Eternity is the only thing that can give you a reason to continue.

Hope for sexual sanity is found only in one place: at the foot of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We must humbly admit we are sinners while we lay hold of the hope of our union with Christ. We don't simply suffer; we suffer as sinners with a deep propensity to run after god-replacements.

the true crisis in the modern evangelical church is not dissatisfaction; it's the opposite. We're all too satisfied.

Envy is universal because sin is.

But God has not called us to erect a little family monastery. Please read carefully what I am going to write next. Monastic parenting will not deliver your children from moral danger.

the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.

El Dios eterno te permite disfrutar de Su gracia eterna para que puedas vivir con una perspectiva eterna.

We must all come to understand and accept the truth that our walks with God are community projects.

If you seek satisfaction, satisfaction will escape your grasp. But if you seek God, rest in his presence and grace, and put your heart in his most capable hands, he will satisfy your heart as nothing else can. You were made for him. Your heart was designed to be controlled by worship of him. Your inner security is meant to come from rest in him. Your sense of well-being is intended to come from a reliance on his wisdom, power, and love.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God. We

if threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

Biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.

Si no respondemos al pecado de otro con un amor redentor, nos hacemos partícipes de su culpa.

most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They